"Everyone has their price, Olivia."

"There isn’t enough money in the world to persuade me to marry you."

Beckett. Let me count the ways I loathe him.

• 1. He’s the bane of my existence.
• 2. A thorn in my side.
• 3. I’m pretty sure he’s the devil in disguise, or he at least has him on speed-dial.

So why am I standing here, bouquet in hand, about to become his wife? He calls it a business proposition. I call it blackmail.

He says our fighting is foreplay. I say he should be on meds. He says he has the power to destroy my company. I say with a husband like him, who needs enemies. But I can survive this six month calamity. All I have to do is keep hating him....